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        </font><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 255);">Supports Windows NT /
        2000 / XP / 2003 and beyond</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font><font face="Tahoma"><br>





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      <p align="center"><font face="Verdana"><span class="postbody"> </span></font><font face="Verdana" size="5"><span style="line-height: normal;">::</span><span style="line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 102, 255);"> <b><i><u>SmartGUI</u></i></b><u>
      </u></span><u>        </u> </font><font color="#808080" face="Verdana" size="5"><u><span style="line-height: normal;">Creator</span><span style="line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 102, 255);"></span></u></font><font face="Verdana" size="5">  <span style="line-height: normal;">::</span></font></p>





        
      
      
      
      
      <p align="center"><font face="Verdana">- Create Graphical
        User Interfaces (GUIs) for </font><a href="http://www.autohotkey.com/"><font face="Verdana">AutoHotkey</font></a><font face="Verdana"> Scripts easily -</font><font face="Verdana" size="2"><br>





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      <p align="center"><font face="Verdana">- </font><font color="#003399" face="Verdana"><b>Rajat</b></font><font face="Verdana"> -</font></p>





        
      
      
      
      
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                &lt;--- Important</font></li>





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      <span class="postbody">        </span></b></font><font face="Verdana"> <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></font><a name="Main Features"><font face="Verdana"><u>Main
        Features</u></font></a><font face="Verdana">: </font> 
      
      
      
      
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            <li><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Completely 'What You See Is What You Get'&nbsp;
                -&nbsp; Move / Resize / Rename / Modify controls
                to see what the generated GUI will look, in
                realtime.</span></li>





            <li><span class="postbody"><font face="Verdana">GUI Stealer - make copies of
                existing windows</font></span></li>





            <li><font face="Verdana"><span class="postbody">Grid background (optional)
                is skinnable</span></font></li>





            <li><span class="postbody"><font face="Verdana">E</font></span><font face="Verdana"><span class="postbody">xisting
                GUI scripts created using SmartGUI are
                re-editable</span></font></li>





            <li><span class="postbody"><font face="Verdana">GUI count can be set easily
                from within SmartGUI</font></span></li>





            <li><font face="Verdana"><span class="postbody">Move a group of controls
                together while keeping their relative position
                intact!</span></font></li>





            <li><span class="postbody"><font face="Verdana">Its FREE!!</font></span></li>





            <li><span class="postbody"><font face="Verdana">Lots more...</font></span></li>





        
      
      
      
      
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        </b></font><font size="2"><b><span class="postbody"></span></b></font><font face="Verdana"><b> </b></font><a name="Installation/Uninstallation"><font face="Verdana"><b>Installation/Uninstallation</b></font></a><font face="Verdana"><b>:</b></font><b></b>
      
      
      
      
      <p><span class="postbody"><font face="Verdana">Basically there is no installation
        required. Just extract 'SmartGUI.Exe' and 'Manual.Html'
        from the compressed 'smartgui.zip' file to any folder and
        run 'SmartGui.Exe'.</font></span></p>





        
      
      
      
      
      <p><span class="postbody"><font face="Verdana">On its first run it'll generate a
        file named 'SmartGUI.Ini' that contains options and your
        preferences which are loaded in the next session.</font></span></p>





        
      
      
      
      
      <p><span class="postbody"><font face="Verdana">For Uninstallation, just remove
        the three files mentioned above and that's it.<br>





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      <span class="postbody">        </span></b></font><font face="Verdana"> <span style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline;"> </span></font><a name="Getting Started"><font face="Verdana">Getting
        Started<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></font></a><font face="Verdana">:</font>
      
      
      
      
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            <li><font face="Verdana"><span class="postbody">Open SmartGUI. You'll see
                the main window (base form) with a grid
                background. The grid is for placement help, it
                won't be shown in the generated GUI.</span></font></li>





            <li><font face="Verdana"><span class="postbody">Use SmartGUI icon in system
                tray menu or right click menu to add buttons,
                checkboxes, edit fields etc. to your GUI.</span></font></li>





            <li><font face="Verdana"><span class="postbody">When you're satisfied with
                the layout, select 'Exit' from tray menu, you'll
                be prompted for a file to save the GUI to.</span></font></li>





            <li><font face="Verdana"><span class="postbody">Open the generated GUI
                script in a script editor and create sections for
                buttons, checkboxes etc.</span></font></li>





            <li><span class="postbody"><font face="Verdana">Selecting 'Ask Control
                Label' from tray menu or selecting 'Change Label'
                from control menu will let you assign custom text
                labels to all controls (you can change them later
                in script).</font></span></li>





            <li><span class="postbody"><font face="Verdana">Selecting 'MicroEditing'
                from tray menu will stop controls from snapping
                to the grid and will let you freely move
                everything.</font></span></li>





            <li><span class="postbody"><font face="Verdana">Selecting 'Test GUI' from
                tray menu will instantly generate the GUI script
                that'll show how exactly the GUI will look when
                run from the script.</font></span></li>





            <li><span class="postbody"><font face="Verdana">Selecting a group of
                controls, you can move them together while still
                maintaining their relative layout (see
                guidelines).</font></span></li>





            <li><span class="postbody"><font face="Verdana">Selecting 'Shift + Move
                Group' </font></span><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 9pt;"> requires
                shift key to be held down for a group selection.
                This option is remembered between sessions.</font></font></li>





        
      
      
      
      
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      <p><font color="#006699" face="Verdana"><span class="postbody">(For more help on
        GUI features, open AutoHotkey help file, select Index Tab
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      <span class="postbody">        </span></b></font><font face="Verdana"> <span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"> </span></font><a name="Guidelines"><font face="Verdana">Guidelines<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></font></a><font face="Verdana">:<br>





        <br>





        </font>
      
      
      <p class="postbody"><font face="Verdana"><u><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ComboBoxes<br>


      </span></u>While Copying, Deleting, Changing Label or Moving the
        ComboBox put your mouse cursor on the dropdown button
        (the one with the little triangle) and not in the edit
        field.</font></p>



      
      
      
      
      <p><font face="Verdana"><span class="postbody"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><u>Set GUI Count</u></span><br>





        This feature asks for a script and adds (or blanks) a
        count to all GUI commands in the script.<br>





        (eg. 'Gui, Add' can be converted to 'Gui, 2:Add')</span></font></p>





        
      
      
      
      
      <p><font face="Verdana"><span class="postbody"><u> Group Move</u><br>





        1. Press left mouse button at the top of the group of
        target controls, and keep it pressed for half-second. <br>





        2. A small selection box will appear, using mouse left
        button draw the selection completely covering all the
        controls in group, while keeping the button pressed. <br>





        3. Using the control panel, move the controls together. </span></font></p>





        
      
      
      
      
      <p><font face="Verdana"><span class="postbody"><u>Edit Script</u> <br>





        1. Only GUIs with absolute placement of controls (like
        the ones created by SmartGUI) are supported, you can't
        edit a GUI script having relative placement of controls.<br>





        2. Do not put any same line comments on GUI commands in a
        script that you want to edit using SmartGUI Creator.<br>




3. Though most GUI scripts with </span></font><font face="Verdana"><span class="postbody">absolute
placement of controls should be editable with SmartGUI easily,
un-modified outputs of SmartGUI are completely supported.</span></font></p>





        
      
      
      
      
      <p><span class="postbody"><font face="Verdana"><u>GUI Stealer<br>





        </u>Use this feature to directly create clones or
        replicas of windows or message boxes, instead of creating
        it one control at a time. Try this on Windows Calculator
        (Standard or Scientific view) to see its efficiency.</font></span></p>





        
      
      
      
      
      <p><span class="postbody"><font face="Verdana"><u>Tabs</u><br>





        1. One Tab control per Gui is supported, having upto 256
        tabs. <br>





        2. </font></span><font style="font-size: 9pt;">All controls added before the Tab are not on
        tab.<br>





        3. All controls added after the Tab is created are on the
        Tab that is selected.</font><span class="postbody"><font face="Verdana"><br>





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        </b></font><b></b></font><font face="Verdana"><b><span class="postbody"></span></b> <span style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline;"> <font style="font-size: 9pt;"></font><a name="Basic Tutorial"><font face="Verdana">Basic Tutorial</font></a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="Basic Tutorial"><font style="font-size: 9pt;"></font></a><font face="Verdana">:</font></span></font>
      
      
      
      
      <p><span class="postbody"><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 9pt;">Goal:
        Present a custom GUI to ask user his Name and Year of
        birth, and do basic processing.</font></font></span></p>





        
      
      
      
      
      <p><span class="postbody"><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 9pt;"> Steps:</font></font></span></p>





        
      
      
      
      
      <p><span class="postbody"><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 9pt;">1. Use SmartGUI to create a basic
        layout and save the script, something like this:</font></font></span></p>





        
      
      
      
      
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                Gui, Add, Text, x17 y8 w120 h20, Your Name:<br>





                Gui, Add, Text, x17 y38 w120 h20, Your Year of
                birth (yyyy):<br>





                Gui, Add, Edit, x157 y8 w100 h20, Name<br>





                Gui, Add, Edit, x157 y38 w100 h20, yyyy<br>





                Gui, Add, Button, x27 y68 w70 h20, OK<br>





                Gui, Add, Button, x177 y68 w70 h20, Cancel<br>





                Gui, Show, x279 y217 h98 w277, Generated using
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                Return<br>





                <br>





                GuiClose:<br>





                ExitApp</font><font color="#808000"></font></font></td>





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      <p><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 9pt;">2. Add variable declarations to
        both edit fields (the letter 'v' followed by variable
        name). Like this:</font></font></p>





        
      
      
      
      
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                <td width="100%"><font color="#808000" face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 9pt;">Gui, Add, Edit, x157 y8 w100 h20
                vName, Name<br>





                Gui, Add, Edit, x157 y38 w100 h20 vYear, yyyy</font><font color="#808000"></font></font></td>





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      <p><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 9pt;">3. Now assign functions to the
        'Ok' and 'Cancel' buttons:</font></font></p>





        
      
      
      
      
      <p><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 9pt;">Ok should do further processing.</font></font></p>





        
      
      
      
      
      <p><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 9pt;">Cancel should do unquestioned
        exit.</font></font></p>





        
      
      
      
      
      <p><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 9pt;">A button's default section name
        (unless assigned otherwise) is the word 'Button' followed
        by its label.</font></font></p>





        
      
      
      
      
      <p><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 9pt;">Eg.</font></font></p>





        
      
      
      
      
      <p><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 9pt;">ButtonOk</font></font></p>





        
      
      
      
      
      <p><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 9pt;">ButtonCancel</font></font></p>





        
      
      
      
      
      <p><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 9pt;">Now, we can assign the same
        function to ButtonCancel as we've done to GuiClose, ie.
        unquestioned exit.</font></font></p>





        
      
      
      
      
      <p><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 9pt;">This is how the ButtonCancel
        section should look like:</font></font></p>





        
      
      
      
      
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                <td width="100%"><font color="#808000" face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 9pt;"> ButtonCancel:<br>





                GuiClose:<br>





                ExitApp</font><font color="#808000"></font></font></td>





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      <p><span style="font-size: 9pt;">4. Now we've to assign further processing function to
        'Ok' button.</span></p>





        
      
      
      
      
      <p><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Lets say we want to calculate the user's age from the
        available data.</span></p>





        
      
      
      
      
      <p><span style="font-size: 9pt;">The first step to get data from a GUI is to make it
        submit it. The command for it is:</span></p>





        
      
      
      
      
      <p><span style="font-size: 9pt;">GUI, Submit</span></p>





        
      
      
      
      
      <p><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Note: 'Gui, Submit' is required only if you need to
        get data from edit fields, checkboxes etc.</span></p>





        
      
      
      
      
      <p><span style="font-size: 9pt;">So this is how the ButtonOk function should look like:</span></p>





        
      
      
      
      
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                Gui, submit<br>





                Age = %A_year% ;%a_year% holds the current year<br>





                Age -= %Year%&nbsp;&nbsp; ; %year% holds the year
                submitted by user<br>





                Msgbox, Hey %name%! You're %Age% years old now!<br>





                ExitApp</font><font color="#808000"></font></font></td>





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      <p><span style="font-size: 9pt;">5. So finally our complete script should look like
        this:</span></p>





        
      
      
      
      
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                Gui, Add, Text, x17 y8 w120 h20, Your Name:<br>





                Gui, Add, Text, x17 y38 w120 h20, Your Year of
                birth (yyyy):<br>





                Gui, Add, Edit, x157 y8 w100 h20 vName, Name<br>





                Gui, Add, Edit, x157 y38 w100 h20 vYear, yyyy<br>





                Gui, Add, Button, x27 y68 w70 h20, OK<br>





                Gui, Add, Button, x177 y68 w70 h20, Cancel<br>





                Gui, Show, x279 y217 h98 w277, Generated using
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                Return</font><font color="#808000"></font></font>
            
            
            
            
            <p><font color="#808000" face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 9pt;"> ButtonCancel:<br>





                GuiClose:<br>





                ExitApp</font><font color="#808000"></font></font></p>





                
            
            
            
            
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                ButtonOk:<br>





                Gui, submit<br>





                Age = %A_year% ;%a_year% holds the current year<br>





                Age -= %Year%&nbsp;&nbsp; ; %year% holds the year
                submitted by user<br>





                Msgbox, Hey %name%! You're %Age% years old now!<br>





                ExitApp</font><font color="#808000"></font></font></p>





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      <p><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Remember that in a control's section you can include
        just about anything, like run a program, open/close a
        window or send key presses.</span></p>





        
      
      
      
      
      <p><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><u>Note</u>: In both the sections (ButtonOk and
        ButtonCancel) there's no 'Return' command at the end,
        this is because both scripts exit at the end (ExitApp).
        Had this not been the case, a 'Return' would be required.</span></p>





        
      
      
      
      
      <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;">More Examples:</span></p>





        
      
      
      
      
      <p><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 9pt;"> 1. This will run notepad on the
        press of a button:</font></font></p>





        
      
      
      
      
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                Gui, Add, Button, x16 y7 w80 h30, Notepad<br>





                Gui, Show, x366 y234 h49 w114, Generated using
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                Return<br>





                <br>





                ButtonNotepad:<br>





                Run, Notepad<br>





                Return<br>





                <br>





                GuiClose:<br>





                ExitApp</font><font color="#808000"></font></font></td>





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                <td width="100%"><font color="#808000" face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 9pt;">; Generated by SmartGUI Creater<br>





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                Gui, Add, Button, x16 y7 w80 h30, My Windows<br>





                Gui, Show, x366 y234 h49 w114, Generated using
                SmartGUI Creator<br>





                Return<br>





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                ButtonMyWindows:<br>





                msgbox, %A_OSVersion%<br>





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                GuiClose:<br>





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        <td width="80%"><font face="Verdana"><span class="postbody"> </span></font><a name="Tips &amp; Tricks"><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline;">Tips &amp;
        Tricks</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></font></a><font face="Verdana">:</font>
      
      
      
      
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            <li><font face="Verdana"><span class="postbody"> Though the generated GUI
                will be positioned exactly like the way you
                modelled it in SmartGUI, if you want it to be
                centered on the screen then remove the x and y
                options from 'Gui, Show' command.</span></font></li>





            <li><span class="postbody"><font face="Verdana">Turning on 'MicroEditing'
                before adding a Groupbox or a Picture is a good
                idea.</font></span></li>





            <li><span class="postbody"><font face="Verdana">To move SmartGUI window
                either horizontally or vertically without
                accidentally altering the other, activate
                SmartGUI window, press alt+space, then press M,
                and then use arrow keys.</font></span></li>





            <li><span class="postbody"><font face="Verdana">Many controls (like
                checkbox, radio, slider) have a 'tiny look' mode
                too (theme dependent). By default the height of
                most controls created in SmartGUI initially is 3
                blocks, but to achieve the 'tiny look' mode,
                reduce their height to 2 blocks.</font></span></li>





            <li><font face="Verdana"><span class="postbody">If you want to change the
                default grid, just put any 1024*768 .gif file in
                SmartGUI's folder and name it 'Grid.gif'.</span></font></li>





            <li><span class="postbody"><font face="Verdana">Selecting the 'Test GUI'
                option from the menu is like an acid test, the
                final way to be sure that the generated GUI will
                be exactly as you want it to be.</font></span></li>

        <li><span class="postbody"><font face="Verdana">Pressing 'Esc' on Save GUI screen will exit without saving the GUI to clipboard or file.<br>

          </font></span></li>





            <li><span class="postbody"><font face="Verdana">Reading this manual fully is
                a great idea!</font></span></li>





        
      
      
      
      
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            <li><font face="Verdana"><span class="postbody">Only one Tab control is
                allowed, though each Tab control can upto have
                256 pages.</span></font></li>





            <li><font face="Verdana"><span class="postbody">Wherever you place the
                UpDown control in SmartGUI, the resultant GUI
                will show it adjacent to the last control
                created.</span></font></li>



        <li><font face="Verdana"><span class="postbody">Sometimes you
might notice some controls disappearing behind the grid or the Tab control. That is a known issue.<br>



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